The Computer Artist's Handbook: Concepts, Techniques and Applications
by SCHWARTZ, Lillian F., and SCHWARTZ, Laurens R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. Hardcover. Foreword by Arno Penzias. Small 4to. Blue cloth and purple paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. xxiii, 318pp. Numerous color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight, superb first edition of this important text -- and a unique presentation copy as well, for Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Penzias, who provides the book's foreword, boldly inscribes and signs this copy in blue fineline on the half-title page: "To Joe Olive / With continuing appreciation / Arno Penzias / Oct 1995." Olive was another high-level Bell Labs physicist, along with Penzias himself. It was while working for Bell Labs in 1964 that Penzias first discovered the radio noise that resulted in findings supporting the Big Bang theory -- and the 1978 Nobel Prize. Also laid into this copy is a 1p 8½" X 11" e-mail printout to Penzias which Penzias enclosed in this copy; the congratulatory text from a researcher thanking Penzias for his help at a seminar and mentioning Olive -- which is why Penzias sent Olive this printout, on which he circles the mention of Olive and boldly pens across it "Joe / Thanks again / Arno." An unusual copy!
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31293
- Title
- The Computer Artist's Handbook: Concepts, Techniques and Applications
- Author
- SCHWARTZ, Lillian F., and SCHWARTZ, Laurens R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Art; Engineering & Technology;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...